EDWARD BETTS, NA ANA 1958; NA 1961 Born in 1920, Edward Betts studied at the Art Students League, earned a BA from Yale University, and an MFA from the University of Illinois. He lives and works in Kennebunk, ME, and is represented by the Ogunquit Arts Collaborative Gallery, Ogunquit, ME. One-person exhibitions include Contemporary Arts, Inc.; John Heller Gallery; Midtown Galleries; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois; Galveston Art Center; Phillips Exeter Academy; Retrospective, Iowa Wesleyan College Museum; Civic Art Center; Feingarten Gallery, Chicago; and the Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN. Selected group exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art; Corcoran Biennials of American Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; American Painting Today, Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Institute of Arts and Letters; Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, MI; and Bowdoin College Museum. The artist's work is included in the collections of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Butler Institute of American Art; New Britain Museum of American Art; Portland Museum of Art; Ogunquit Museum of American Art; California Watercolor Society; Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co.; Atlanta University Museum; and the Indianapolis Art Museum. Mr. Bett's has authored several publications: Master Class in Watercolor; Creative Landscape Painting; Creative Seascape Painting; and Master Class in Watermedia. Mr. Betts is a recipient of numerous prizes from the National Academy of Design including a Ranger Purchase Award; a Gold Medal of Honor, Audubon Artists; and a Zabriskie Purchase Award, American Watercolor Society.